chaikatrabant
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Maybe they'll melt her down and make her into something more useful, like a commemorative teapot. Or maybe she'll be kidnapped by the black market guys everyone's forgotten about.
nezra132
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I read somewhere that the story was written by the same guy who wrote Steins;Gate, so I had really high expectations. Even after seeing the art (not fond of this studio), I still thought the writing, at least, would prove good. But I was quite mistaken.
The previous posts have summed up many of the issue so far, so I won't elaborate for now. Suffice to say I'm disappointed; it barely even qualifies as generic, the writing and direction are so poor.
Or even worse, she'll go berserk but then he'll talk to her and cry for a while and she'll magically come around. And then they all lived happily ever after.
The previous posts have summed up many of the issue so far, so I won't elaborate for now. Suffice to say I'm disappointed; it barely even qualifies as generic, the writing and direction are so poor.
Or even worse, she'll go berserk but then he'll talk to her and cry for a while and she'll magically come around. And then they all lived happily ever after.
ZetsubouKaiji
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I think this is what's being hinted at due to the failed attempt to talk down the berserk robot a few episodes ago. She seemed to show some brief sign she understood. Plus, in the set up the series they referred to the breakthrough that made the bots possible as giving them a soul at the time I thought they were just being fanciful with their wording, but now I doubt it. In which case this series isn't even sci-fi but fantasy. Not that fantasy or sci-fi matters when it is being from the big book of rom-com cliches.
nezra132
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Plus, it would be overly befitting the tone thus far for the ending to be a big, "So nothing really ended up happening and their wacky lives continued! Tune in next year for season two, where the MC will spend ten of the twelve episode debating whether or not to ask Isla out for real."
tootalls
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Please God no, just kill it and git it over with please!
chaikatrabant
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Ep 8
This doesn't feel like the eighth episode, it feels like it's still floundering around at ep2 trying to get going.
I wish I wasn't so stubborn about not dropping stuff.
This doesn't feel like the eighth episode, it feels like it's still floundering around at ep2 trying to get going.
More of the same. New character arbitrarily introduced to force an episode about whether a reformatted Giftia can get her memories back. She can't, but I bet Isla could, using the Power of Love.
More attempts at humour. Boobs are funny, guyz.
MC finally tells Isla he loves her. The "I want to be your partner forever" would have held more weight if he hadn't ignored her for most of the episode and not noticed she'd been missing for ages.
More post-credits 'comedy' managed to wreck whatever small amount of emotion the final scene had evoked. Just like they did with the 'I need to pee' gag in the first ep.
More attempts at humour. Boobs are funny, guyz.
MC finally tells Isla he loves her. The "I want to be your partner forever" would have held more weight if he hadn't ignored her for most of the episode and not noticed she'd been missing for ages.
More post-credits 'comedy' managed to wreck whatever small amount of emotion the final scene had evoked. Just like they did with the 'I need to pee' gag in the first ep.
I wish I wasn't so stubborn about not dropping stuff.
ZetsubouKaiji
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Episode 8:
Gens
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4 episodes in a row of the most asinine stuff possible, I am not impressed.
EDIT: On an additional thought, I think what's truly the saddest part about this is, it seems like they've mostly done away with the most interesting aspect of the show which is the retrieval part and that's pretty infuriating for me.
4 episodes in a row of the most asinine stuff possible, I am not impressed.
EDIT: On an additional thought, I think what's truly the saddest part about this is, it seems like they've mostly done away with the most interesting aspect of the show which is the retrieval part and that's pretty infuriating for me.
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tootalls
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yeah........................ stuff happened and then at the end something happened and I'm like why............ and also.................
in any case I feel good that I got ep 8 and 9 out of the way, it would really suck if I let this pile up to much and had to marathon through it.
why is everyone so ok with this guy confessing his love for a robot designed to look 12?
in any case I feel good that I got ep 8 and 9 out of the way, it would really suck if I let this pile up to much and had to marathon through it.
chaikatrabant
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Ugh, this isn't even interesting enough to be called asinine...
Ep. 9
So we're left with a show in which two boring characters moan about their feelings while being shouted at by interchangeable aggressive redheads. Well done, Plastic Memories. You have beaten me. I'm out.
Ep. 9
How on earth is Michiru surprised that Isla's lifespan is running out? She's worked for the company for more than five minutes, hasn't she?
Why does everyone in this company act like highschoolers? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be encouraging any of the human employees to crush on the android ones, particularly ones that only have a month left to live. Surely they'd tell the MC to pull himself together and get on with his work, rather than sitting at his desk sulking.
I guess we're done with all the stuff about retrievals, and memories, and asking what makes us human, and that black market retrieval operation which was introduced for one episode just to force some contrived point.
It's a show that wants to be a drama, but can't do it without unbelievable internal logic and forced circumstances.
And it wants to be a rom-com too, but the comedy isn't funny. I barely made it past the pyjama party. It's not romantic either, because both Tsukasa and Isla are so painfully boring that it's hard to imagine anyone developing feelings for them. Romances don't work when you can't care less about either party.
Why does everyone in this company act like highschoolers? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be encouraging any of the human employees to crush on the android ones, particularly ones that only have a month left to live. Surely they'd tell the MC to pull himself together and get on with his work, rather than sitting at his desk sulking.
I guess we're done with all the stuff about retrievals, and memories, and asking what makes us human, and that black market retrieval operation which was introduced for one episode just to force some contrived point.
It's a show that wants to be a drama, but can't do it without unbelievable internal logic and forced circumstances.
And it wants to be a rom-com too, but the comedy isn't funny. I barely made it past the pyjama party. It's not romantic either, because both Tsukasa and Isla are so painfully boring that it's hard to imagine anyone developing feelings for them. Romances don't work when you can't care less about either party.
So we're left with a show in which two boring characters moan about their feelings while being shouted at by interchangeable aggressive redheads. Well done, Plastic Memories. You have beaten me. I'm out.
Ebhen
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Whoever planned this series should go back under the stone he crawled up from and watch some pros in action before trying again.
Why even bother when they can't even get a mediocre story out. This is just a hotchpotch of random ideas that never was developed enough. And some things are so obvious that you can spot the "twist" a mile off. I had some hope the first eps but now I just watch it through to se IF they manage to scrape up enough to make an ending worth watching.
The whole time they try to manipulate our feelings for the mc and Isla but fails badly. The depth you need isn't there because they forgot to build it up and now you just sits and wait for something to happen. If you want a series that did that manipulation good,take a look at AnoHana! They knew how to jerk the emotions around. These guys... meh...
Enough ranting from me today. Now I just try to endure the rest without to much fuss.
Why even bother when they can't even get a mediocre story out. This is just a hotchpotch of random ideas that never was developed enough. And some things are so obvious that you can spot the "twist" a mile off. I had some hope the first eps but now I just watch it through to se IF they manage to scrape up enough to make an ending worth watching.
The whole time they try to manipulate our feelings for the mc and Isla but fails badly. The depth you need isn't there because they forgot to build it up and now you just sits and wait for something to happen. If you want a series that did that manipulation good,take a look at AnoHana! They knew how to jerk the emotions around. These guys... meh...
Enough ranting from me today. Now I just try to endure the rest without to much fuss.
ZetsubouKaiji
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Yup, this is what bugs me the most about it. If the intention was just to make cliche rom-com #6950493229 then don't waste time with the interesting setting or premise that are going to end up meaning nothing anyway. Unfortunately boring series do this all the time they'll come up with a great framing device that only ends up being window dressing in an attempt to make their otherwise dull series stand out.
The basic idea behind the series could have explored the nature of all kinds of relationships and how technology might shape them in the future if it wanted to go for the feels route. I'm also a fan of series that take the inhuman and use it as a way to explore various parts of humanity like the way Mushishi uses the mushi to explore different parts of the human nature or mental illness. The Giftia could have been used in a similar war to explore humanity from the perspective of robots that only have a limited life span compared to humans and must squeeze their whole life into that limited time. I mean even idea of thinking breathing entities that know the exact time and date their "lives' will end could make for a neat series.
But why do any of that when there's shitty recycled jokes and the same rom-com cliches to be used for the millionth time?
Prisoner1138
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Well it's gotten to the point where
The android repo jobs might as well be nothing more than "cleanup aisle #5" at the local grocery store.
I can ignore the fact that these supposedly fresh out of highschool(maybe even college?) people act like a bunch of jr high or highschool brats in a work environment. I can ignore the million things wrong with the MC falling in "love" with an android made to look like a 12 year old... in addition to being an android with only a month to live till it needs to be formatted like someone's uncle's computer that's still running windows vista infested with malware because he can't find decent porn sites(now that I think about it, that's an even weirder comparison than I initially thought considering I'm talking about a man in love with an android that looks like a 12 year old).
But now this crap about Isla being the one who came up with the idiotic feel good policy that only the one repo office has? What? She's shown the emotional development of a gnat, yet we're supposed to buy that she came up with this touchy feely repo(yes, I'm calling it a repo, that might as well be what it is) crap, yet managed to get so depressed she decided to act like a stereotypical sci-fi robot, and is only just now getting back to realizing that people have feelings(yet of course isn't intelligent enough to realize how whacked in the head the MC is...), all the while being supported by this inane cast of people who put up with this crap?
Even the MC(hell, I can't even remember his name and I only just finished watching the episode maybe 10 minutes ago) seems to have noticed that something is really odd with how the office handles things, as if he couldn't have figured that out in episode 1(or at least ep2)?
This is like a stupid version of Chobits or Mahoromatic written by a 12 year old. I think the only thing that keeps me watching this trainwreck of writing is that I already bailed on that GTO reject Denpa Kyoushi trash this season and since it hasn't gotten "that bad" yet.
I can ignore the fact that these supposedly fresh out of highschool(maybe even college?) people act like a bunch of jr high or highschool brats in a work environment. I can ignore the million things wrong with the MC falling in "love" with an android made to look like a 12 year old... in addition to being an android with only a month to live till it needs to be formatted like someone's uncle's computer that's still running windows vista infested with malware because he can't find decent porn sites(now that I think about it, that's an even weirder comparison than I initially thought considering I'm talking about a man in love with an android that looks like a 12 year old).
But now this crap about Isla being the one who came up with the idiotic feel good policy that only the one repo office has? What? She's shown the emotional development of a gnat, yet we're supposed to buy that she came up with this touchy feely repo(yes, I'm calling it a repo, that might as well be what it is) crap, yet managed to get so depressed she decided to act like a stereotypical sci-fi robot, and is only just now getting back to realizing that people have feelings(yet of course isn't intelligent enough to realize how whacked in the head the MC is...), all the while being supported by this inane cast of people who put up with this crap?
Even the MC(hell, I can't even remember his name and I only just finished watching the episode maybe 10 minutes ago) seems to have noticed that something is really odd with how the office handles things, as if he couldn't have figured that out in episode 1(or at least ep2)?
This is like a stupid version of Chobits or Mahoromatic written by a 12 year old. I think the only thing that keeps me watching this trainwreck of writing is that I already bailed on that GTO reject Denpa Kyoushi trash this season and since it hasn't gotten "that bad" yet.
tootalls
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ep 10
positive thoughts............
meh
positive thoughts............
there were some good moments............they made a short revisit to the repo element and it was like dangling the show's potential in our faces one more time.
The Isla moment wasn't entirely bad, but if the anime wasn't like 95% crap, then it would have been easier to get into it and try and fell the emotion they tried to pull out of it.
in any case the repo element is strong enough that when they just threw it in there for about 2 minutes of focus, it was still good, So Isla's repo, that the entire show has been building towards could potentially be very satisfying. As long as the show doesn't pull some bullshit to make her survive beyond her time limit.
The Isla moment wasn't entirely bad, but if the anime wasn't like 95% crap, then it would have been easier to get into it and try and fell the emotion they tried to pull out of it.
in any case the repo element is strong enough that when they just threw it in there for about 2 minutes of focus, it was still good, So Isla's repo, that the entire show has been building towards could potentially be very satisfying. As long as the show doesn't pull some bullshit to make her survive beyond her time limit.
meh
Prisoner1138
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Really?
All I got out of it was the characters doing their jobs, while the MC and the other android did a poor exposition dump during lunch. It wasn't even the repo itself where Isla and what's her name even did anything, it was afterwards when she finally confronted Isla for acting like a brat. If I missed something, let me know, but I don't think I did.
I'm also fairly certain they'll go for a cop-out ending where Isla keeps her memories or something and the reason she performed so badly during the testing a few episodes back was due to being some new generation of more human-like robot, or maybe they figured out how to pull her brain out of the 12 year old body and stick it in that of an adult android or something(at least that'd make her relationship with the MC a little less weird). Worst case "they're programmed so true love makes them live longer" but I don't think the writer is quite that bad.
I'm also fairly certain they'll go for a cop-out ending where Isla keeps her memories or something and the reason she performed so badly during the testing a few episodes back was due to being some new generation of more human-like robot, or maybe they figured out how to pull her brain out of the 12 year old body and stick it in that of an adult android or something(at least that'd make her relationship with the MC a little less weird). Worst case "they're programmed so true love makes them live longer" but I don't think the writer is quite that bad.
ZetsubouKaiji
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I agree with Prisoner,
the collection this week was just a weak way of pushing Ida in the right direction. After her little speech the Yakuza guy and his body guard disappeared from the episode because they were just a cheap plot device. I found it to be rather heavy handed and obvious.
Prisoner1138
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Hell, they disappeared from the episode so fast I was honestly confused by it. Not that we really needed 5 or 10 minutes of the mafia guy playing jump rope with his android or whatever, but at the very least it could have served as a better lead-in for what's her name to ask Isla what the heck her problem is.
If the writer had any sense, he could have used the yakuza boss and his bodyguard as some sort of way to get back to the black market android repo crew, explain why there's an almost paramilitary swat team involved even though the repo guys have a magic ray-gun, and actually introduce a conflict to the series. Heck, it might have even served to develop some of the other characters in the show who have some kind of history... that the writer isn't interested in showing us.
There are 3 more episodes of the show. Last ep is going to be some happy ending nonsense. That leaves 2 episodes for some final crisis to happen(and get resolved in ep 13) leaving no time for anything serious to occur like Isla getting repo'd by the blackmarket guys or something. It's just too late in the game for this to develop into anything other than what it already is.
If the writer had any sense, he could have used the yakuza boss and his bodyguard as some sort of way to get back to the black market android repo crew, explain why there's an almost paramilitary swat team involved even though the repo guys have a magic ray-gun, and actually introduce a conflict to the series. Heck, it might have even served to develop some of the other characters in the show who have some kind of history... that the writer isn't interested in showing us.
There are 3 more episodes of the show. Last ep is going to be some happy ending nonsense. That leaves 2 episodes for some final crisis to happen(and get resolved in ep 13) leaving no time for anything serious to occur like Isla getting repo'd by the blackmarket guys or something. It's just too late in the game for this to develop into anything other than what it already is.